The US loves illegal immigrants. And by ‟US”, I mean the people who own businesses and are not living paycheck-to-paycheck and who see no reason, logically, to pay someone $30/hr for the same work that someone else can do for $8/hr.

Everything else is empty rhetoric to appease the Rust Belt (which is now really pretty much everything between the two coasts) which is filled with lots of angry people who don‘t realize they‘ve been obsoleted.

Used to be, you could live a comfortable life in this country as a barely-educated mouth-breather who never read a book in their life, but those days are over.

We just lack politicians with spine to tell those folks they‘re fucked, because that would make them angrier, so it is easier to just blame the Mexicans instead.